Spyderco Manbug Folding 1.97 in K390 Blue FRN

Excellent and fun little pocket/keychain knife. Seems well made. Super sharp out of the box.

At over $70 for such a small blade, I can imagine lot of people would dismiss the Spyderco Manbug with K390 steel as an overpriced novelty item. My response to this claim would be that they have clearly never used the knife. I purchased this knife after trying out the Ladybug, which proved a little too small in the handle for optimal use. The Manbug was released solely to address this limitation, and Spyderco hit a home run by releasing what I consider to be the best keychain knife in existence. This knife is basically a smaller version of the Delica or Dragonfly, with excellent grippy scales, full flat grind, and incredible K390 steel that outclasses most popular high end knife steels used today. This little blade has excellent toughness, edge retention, and corrosion resistance with very few compromises, and the result is an outstandingly sharp blade that punches far above its 1.95” length. It’s a very small knife, about the length of my pink when closed. I got it specifically for my keychain and keep it attached to a KeySmart MagConnect for easy detachment, and having a razor sharp blade always on you is quite convenient. Aside from heavy duty professional tasks, there should be very little that this small knife cannot do in everyday life. It keeps its sharpness for a long time and Spyderco knives come scary sharp from the factory. If you want the best keychain knife there is, this is it.

I carry this knife in my pocketeverywhere except on airplanes, and I use it several times a day for many different tasks (mostly opening Amazon boxes!). It has and keeps an edge that is far better than the Gerber I used to carry. The grip is sturdy and it tends to stay straight when dragging it through cardboard.

Very small if you are on the fence the ManBug is thicker than the ladybug.very similar I can’t see difference in the blades side by side

Great sized knife, and still ergonomic for my giant hands. It's a good one to keep on the key ring when you have some more aggressive cutting tasks and you don't want to use your primary knife. Materials, fit and finish excellent as you would expect from Spyderco.

It's my new prefferred always carry addition, very sharp from the box and it's been a couple of months of cutting random stuff with ease. The downside is the hardness of it, it chips pretty easily so NEVER use it to pry stuff open it might just break in two. It's tiny and unassuming but I figure you could kill a mountain lion if you stab it enough times before it mauls you with it's 10 razor sharp mittens.

Great carry size. Always sharp. Typical excellent Spyderco quality. My most carried/used blade. Super steel.

Most uneven grind I've ever seen